I hate writing code in either language. But at least what C has going for it is that it's waaaay simpler than C++. Simple can be a really good thing. Sure, all those cool features can save you time, but they can also be gotchas that will cause bugs.
Though it is a balancing act. Too simple and you'll make mistakes due to how much you have to repeat yourself or using unsafe equivalents (like using preprocessor directives to mimic features that C++ natively supports).
Regular people thinking they know more than experts + internet forums. Name a more iconic duo.
Same thing happened up here in Canada
And look at all the crime he's committed. Oops, wait, he hasn't.
By nature of successfully being considered legally insane (which is not easy to do), he doesn't have malicious intent, though. Not in the eyes of the law. By being not in the right mind, it's as if it wasn't actually him that committed the crime.
We should be making decisions based on facts, not emotions. It's easy for a horrible crime to make us feel "what the fuck, he should rot in prison". But ask yourself why the insanity defense even exists if not to allow seriously ill people to be helped.
I remember wondering this when I was first trying to self learn. It's because I needed a map (or list + struct or something) and was such a noob I didn't know what maps were. Whatever material I was learning from wasn't good enough, especially for winging things. Plus I was trying to learn C++ and maps aren't quite so built into the language as they are with a better first language like Python.
You don't need the ban to be perfect. Especially if you go after manufacturers, not users. Make it harder for people to do uncouth things. Accessibility is a huge driver of people using things. You might not be able to stop everyone, but you can stop the majority of people.
Honestly, dishwashers are amazing. I've rented a bunch of different and when I rented a place without a dishwasher, I thought it'd be no big deal. No way. Dishwasher is so worth it. I refuse to rent a place that doesn't have a dishwasher (and in-suite laundry -- shared laundry is also a pain).
No need to scrub them most of the time. Technology Connections's tip of putting some detergent outside of the dispenser seems to help a little.
I have one thing that I've found needs to be scrubbed (a cup shaped thing that will have cake on egg), but almost everything else seems to get cleaned perfectly.
To be honest, pretty much all my files that actually matter are under my Dropbox folder. Everything else is ephemeral. I mostly depend on Steam or the likes to backup game saves. Not much else I care about. I've upgraded my PC a few times (with no full backups) and never missed a single thing that got lost in the upgrade.
Doesn't apply to every climate, but Stardew also doesn't make you face the physical pain of air that hurts your face.
The most recent C++ thing I worked on (not that recent, like 5 years or so ago) was a fairly new project and the people working on it were really passionate about C++. But it was C++ code that ran as a Python library and was using the official Python C bindings. Not sure why we didn't use one of the unofficial C++ libraries, but the usage of that C library (and such a fundamental one) held things back. We wrote was was modern C++ (at the time), but big chunks would be a completely different style.